Continuous-display motion-picture device.



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CONTINUOUS DISPLAY` MOIION PICTURE DEVICE. APPLICATION FILED 0c?. 25. I9I5.

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Application ien octane-1 on, which form a part ot this application.

This invention relates to an improvement in display cameras for motion pic-uros?l the object of the invention being4 to produce an attachment for the earner; whereby several reels may loe connected together during` the display period without the necessity of stopping the operation of the camera between the display of the different reelsor the operan ing of two machines as is now often done.

A further object ol the invention is to produce a simple and inexpensive device and one which will be exceedingly citer-tive for the purposes for which it is designwdw Thcseobjects l accomplish by means ot such structure and relative arrangement oi parts as will fully appear oy-a perusal ot the following specification and claims.

In the drawings similar characters ol' reerence indicate corresponding' part. in the several views.

Figure l is a side elevation showingA a portion of the operatingl means ofthe camera with my improved device applied thereto. Fig. 2 is a top plan view of the same. Fig. is a plan view of a fragmentary portion ot' a film showing a trip opening therein,

Referring now more particularly to the charactersof reference on the drawing/s`r the numeral l designates the magazine Afor the reels, which., in my improved device7 is made large enough to carry two reels at one time, these reels being indicated loy tho numerals 2 and 3. The nlm 4 from the reel E2 passes out between the guide rollers 5, 'and the lilm i. May 25 detail in the wings as it would confuse 'the issue. le numerrd designates the main driving pinion oit the ean'iera which operates a pinion to drive the advancingI sprockets l0 over which the film moves, and the numerals ll 1Q designate the rollers now commonly coopera ting with the driving sproclets l0. Ordinarily, in thetpresent day form 1 .'as, the film fl after leaving the rollers 5 under the rollers il, thence over ,k 310 and between the sprockets the rollers i2 nl thence passes into toting; i ,tu apparatus ot the earner; By reason et?. now comnmnly used. structure, when the end the film is reached', becomes i'iecessary to stop the camera subst out a cfmsidv3 .vole amount of slack on the "l s l-f :Ly Vl ,'v nim. as it ieacnes its eno.y which slack is then kder the rollers 1l vl.ithout moving L eme end et the lilni and hence this end of me Sini can he attached to the end of:

.e rorwart. end of the camera, s x provide what .i will ter i a storage recepn tacie hoi-@ having an opening` atlil: disposed on eacn oi which are rollers 15 and 1G. A metal chute or `guide l? leads to and opens oetveen the rollers 16. Near the opposite end otl the chute 17, l provide a supporting' bracket 18 mounted in which is a shaft havingr on one end a pinion 20 engagging the pinion 9. The relative size of the pinion 2O with respect to the pinion 9a is such that with the operation of the pinion 9 the pinion 2O will he rotated much more rapidly than the pinion 9, for a purpose as will appear. @n the shaft 19 are sprockets iii on sleeve normally turnalily mountcd on the said. shai't lli? said sprocket being arranged to engage the sprocket engaging perforations ot the iihn. The said spreek 21 are disposed at the upper opcn end of the chute li? which flares outwardly on its edges shown. By reason of the sprockets 2l being normal y freely turnable "y to one sido thereof, I

on said shaft, advancing members on said sleeve arranged to be engaged by the film, a` clutch on the shaft arranged to be engaged with the sleeve to rotate said sleeve in unison with the shaft, and a member engageable by the lm to throw the clutch out of engagement, as described.

6. vA device of the character' described comprising the combination with a film' advancing mechanism, of a shaft j ournaled adjacent the same and arranged to be driven at a greater speed than the shaft of the ad- ORA T. PRICE.

a sleeve turnably I 

